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Mollom Module 6.x-1.13 Release Ships with Webform Support

Posted Fri, 04/09/2010 - 10:06am by Ben

On Monday, the latest published release for Mollom module (6.x-1.13) for Drupal was announced on Dries Buytaert’s blog. As you may know, the previous release for Mollom happened about a month and a half ago, but this new release “tweaks, extends, and improves the module code” and fixes a number of bugs, including several that involve audio CAPTCHAs.

Why Your Site Needs a Robots.txt File

Posted Wed, 04/07/2010 - 3:47pm by Ben

The robots.txt file is a file that sits at the root level of your website and asks spiders and bots to behave themselves when they’re on your site. You can take a look at it by pointing your browser to http://www.yourDrupalsite.com/robots.txt. Think of it like an electronic No Trespassing sign that can easily tell the search engines not to crawl a certain directory or page of your site. Using wildcards, you can even tell the engines not to crawl file types like .jpg and .pdf. This means none of your JPEG images or PDF files will show up in the search engines.

9 Reasons Why Drupal is the Best CMS For SEO

Posted Mon, 04/05/2010 - 8:41am by Ben

Here is a question that Volacci gets quite often:

“Why is Drupal a better choice than Joomla! or WordPress for SEO?”

That question is, indeed, subjective. The answer depends upon what exactly you want your site to do. Do you simply want a blog that you can post to a few times a week? Then WordPress is probably your best bet. Joomla? Well, we are still trying to figure out when Joomla is better...

X(ML) Marks the Spot: Your Drupal SEO Guide to XML Sitemaps

Posted Wed, 03/31/2010 - 8:59am by Ben

As smart as Google’s search engine spiders are, even they can miss pages on your site while indexing for search results. Maybe you have moved a link to content so that it’s not easily accessible. Or, it could be possible your site is too big for Google to crawl without pulling all your server’s resources - not pretty!

The solution is simple: a sitemap. There are three main types of sitemaps you can use on your Drupal site, but we will cover the most important: the XML sitemap. XML sitemaps are designed to be used by search engines for indexing your pages.

10 SEO Mistakes to avoid #10

Posted Mon, 03/29/2010 - 8:30am by Ben

Not enough links

Occurs When

There is a belief that if you just put up a good site with good content then you'll rank at the top of Google and the other search engines. While these things help a lot, most sites will need to generate at least a few good links in order to rank.

Fix by

It can be fixed by spending a few hours getting some links. If you’re not sure how to do this, it may be worth it to call in an SEO consultant to help you out.

10 SEO Mistakes to avoid #9

Posted Fri, 03/26/2010 - 1:55pm by Ben

The ninth SEO mistake to avoid might seem like common sense, but surprisingly is a common problem:

Not putting contact information on the site

Occurs when

Your company phone number or other contact information doesn’t appear in the banner of your site which would make it very easy for people to contact you.

Fix by

It can be fixed by putting the phone number big and bold in the banner. Make sure you put it in the footer and other obvious places like the contact us page.

10 SEO Mistakes to avoid #8

Posted Wed, 03/24/2010 - 9:39am by Ben

The eighth SEO mistake to avoid is optimizing for your company name. Think about it, if there is one thing that you will be able to rank for in the search engines, it should be your own company name right?

Occurs when

The company name appears first in the title tags and other places on the site. It’s easy to forget that your corporate site will probably rank first in Google for your company name and brand names so there’s probably no need to optimize for it.

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10 SEO Mistakes to avoid #7

Posted Mon, 03/22/2010 - 8:44am by Ben

The seventh of the 10 SEO mistakes to avoid is when Flash, Frames, graphics, and other things obscure your site from Google. While flash, frames, and graphics look nice, they aren't beneficial for Google rankings.

Occurs when
The site was built is more looks than for ranking well in the search engines.

Fix by
It can be fixed by making sure that your keywords appear in your site -- especially on the pages that contain a lot of graphics or Flash.

10 SEO Mistakes to Avoid #6

Posted Fri, 03/19/2010 - 10:02am by Ben

There are few things that are more annoying than a slow web site. However, what constitutes slow? Rule of thumb is if a site takes more than about two seconds to load, it is considered slow. Problem #6:

A slow Drupal site

Occurs when
Your site takes more than about two seconds to load.

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10 SEO mistakes to avoid #5

Posted Wed, 03/17/2010 - 9:45am by Ben

The fifth SEO mistake to avoid is spending time on meta tags. Why? Because they really don't matter outside of your main pages. Even then, it is not an activity that you should spend a lot of time on.

Occurs when
You go through your site setting keyword and other meta tags on each node.

Fix by
It can be fixed by remembering that Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag. Go ahead and set them for your main pages, but don’t spend too much time on it.

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